.- The situation in Libya has deteriorated substantially over the past 48 hours, during protests against the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi, in which 140 people have died, according to HWR, while some witnesses estimated that more than 200 victims , mostly by gunfire. The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that there have been 104 deaths nationwide since the beginning of the protests, on Tuesday.
According to HRW, total of 55 of the victims had been killed in protests in Benghazi, the second largest city and located a few thousand 200 kilometers east of Tripoli. Total censorship imposed by the Libyan regime on the clashes between security forces and protesters calling for an end of the Gaddafi regime, there are no official figures on the number of dead and wounded.
However, some witnesses, including journalists Sami Mahmoud and Mohamed Abdallah's lawyer, said today at the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television that the death toll in Benghazi over 200 and wounded amount to about 900. The journalist stated that only this morning at least 100 bodies have been recovered from the Jala hospital for burial.
A doctor at the hospital, who requested anonymity, told television station said that many people who have died in clashes in Benghazi and were transferred to the medical center had bullet wounds to the head or abdomen. Abdallah Mohamed's attorney pointed out by his party members of the Libyan security services aided by "African mercenaries paid by the Gaddafi clan repress the demonstrators" have made "a real massacre" in Benghazi.
Despite the "climate of terror" that reigns between 20 thousand and 30 thousand people took to the streets of this city this afternoon to demand the fall of the regime of Libyan leader, according to sources. Other witnesses have stated that "yellow helmets, as they are known to those considered mercenaries of various nationalities in Africa, have committed" genocide "in Derna city, also in the east, where there were charred bodies in the road the airport.
The city of Derna, according to this witness, is completely "under siege" by armed troops and their inhabitants do not have food or other commodities. Moreover, Zouia City is "under the control of protesters," a human rights activist who identified himself as Rabbi Chrait, who said he has been burned a house in that locality Gaddafi and military officers and police have joined the protest movement.
In the Libyan capital, dozens of judges, lawyers and academics have focused today before the court to order an end to the killing. Meanwhile, Libyan state television is broadcasting images of Qaddafi participating in marches with supporters at the center of the capital. The Libyan news agency Jana has released a statement from the Government that the police have acted in the past to the arrest of dozens of foreign nationality as the Tunisian, Egyptian, Sudanese, Turkish and Syrian as well as Palestinians.
These foreigners have been "specially trained and equipped with specific plans to sow unrest in Libyan territory," according to the official statement released by Jana, which further indicates that this is a "network trained to destroy the country's stability, security of its citizens and national unity.
" "These people have been given the task of encouraging looting, sabotage, like burning down hospitals, banks, courts, prisons, police stations and military police and other public buildings and private property," stated Jana. The agency also noted that Libyan authorities did not rule out the hypothesis that the Israeli secret service "Mossad" are behind the alleged network. 
According to HRW, total of 55 of the victims had been killed in protests in Benghazi, the second largest city and located a few thousand 200 kilometers east of Tripoli. Total censorship imposed by the Libyan regime on the clashes between security forces and protesters calling for an end of the Gaddafi regime, there are no official figures on the number of dead and wounded.
However, some witnesses, including journalists Sami Mahmoud and Mohamed Abdallah's lawyer, said today at the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television that the death toll in Benghazi over 200 and wounded amount to about 900. The journalist stated that only this morning at least 100 bodies have been recovered from the Jala hospital for burial.
A doctor at the hospital, who requested anonymity, told television station said that many people who have died in clashes in Benghazi and were transferred to the medical center had bullet wounds to the head or abdomen. Abdallah Mohamed's attorney pointed out by his party members of the Libyan security services aided by "African mercenaries paid by the Gaddafi clan repress the demonstrators" have made "a real massacre" in Benghazi.
Despite the "climate of terror" that reigns between 20 thousand and 30 thousand people took to the streets of this city this afternoon to demand the fall of the regime of Libyan leader, according to sources. Other witnesses have stated that "yellow helmets, as they are known to those considered mercenaries of various nationalities in Africa, have committed" genocide "in Derna city, also in the east, where there were charred bodies in the road the airport.
The city of Derna, according to this witness, is completely "under siege" by armed troops and their inhabitants do not have food or other commodities. Moreover, Zouia City is "under the control of protesters," a human rights activist who identified himself as Rabbi Chrait, who said he has been burned a house in that locality Gaddafi and military officers and police have joined the protest movement.
In the Libyan capital, dozens of judges, lawyers and academics have focused today before the court to order an end to the killing. Meanwhile, Libyan state television is broadcasting images of Qaddafi participating in marches with supporters at the center of the capital. The Libyan news agency Jana has released a statement from the Government that the police have acted in the past to the arrest of dozens of foreign nationality as the Tunisian, Egyptian, Sudanese, Turkish and Syrian as well as Palestinians.
These foreigners have been "specially trained and equipped with specific plans to sow unrest in Libyan territory," according to the official statement released by Jana, which further indicates that this is a "network trained to destroy the country's stability, security of its citizens and national unity.
" "These people have been given the task of encouraging looting, sabotage, like burning down hospitals, banks, courts, prisons, police stations and military police and other public buildings and private property," stated Jana. The agency also noted that Libyan authorities did not rule out the hypothesis that the Israeli secret service "Mossad" are behind the alleged network.
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